Parker: Words alone will not deter any terrorist

9:34 AM,
May 30, 2013

Written by

Kathleen Parker

It's good to know that the war on terror is over. It was all so ugly, what with the beheadings and bombings.

Wait.

Weren't we just talking about the IRS targeting conservative groups and the Justice Department secretly seizing reporters' phone records? And about how no effort was made to rescue our people in Benghazi, Libya? The official line is that we couldn't have gotten there in time but, as numerous military readers have pointed out to me, no one knew how long the siege would last. How, then, could anyone have known that there wasn't time to get there? Turns out maybe, though hindsight isn't ...